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European Union, Eastern Europe country, so neither first nor third but in the middle. By income I'm in the 75% bracket for a software dev in London and 90% in the UK so opportunities for *easily* finding something that pays more are non-existent. Everyone compares developer salaries with New...

I was ironic when saying "a light read". But I do have a reasonable grasp over what's in there (martingale pricing, change of measure, Fokker-Planck) since by my engineering background I believe you gotta know the foundations before building upon them.

Maybe. But I'm an Options trader so I don't know who to talk with except you guys.

For me that's the slavery I was born into and still do which requires 12 hours straight before being allowed to do something else with your time. It's your decision from that point on if you exhaustedly sleep only to find your norm increased when you wake up tomorrow or you drink your minds in...

How do you evaluate the cost on your own person of working for a sub-par employer? Which does offer you a meal and and place to sleep but not 1000x more than that? And you're like the guy capable of achieving 1e6+ at least for starters.

What about Amsterdam? Red district, coffee shops, why not go there? (On the other hand I don't see it on the list here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_centre ).

EU, Eastern Europe. Far easier to find guys with an interest in raising goats for milk and other benefits than speculating on the capital markets. What's that? :D Actually there is but I don't find much use in the types who hang around there. That will be one of the ways to go, I've actually...

Who said that the only thing worse than a bad reputation is no reputation? :)

Speaking of branding, I'll probably open source my options backtester platform and accelerate it's integration with the live trading system by paying guys on UpWork to do some work. I'm not terribly happy releasing all of this for free (actually paying for it) but looks like it's the only way to...

I'm gonna concentrate on this one, I suppose.

You see, $100,000 of capital buys you 200 trials of my $500 per month investment. You can get those 200 trials out of $1000 too, but with a $5 investment per trial. So when you make that x1000 exit, $500 buys you $500k. A nice return of investment from those $100k. But at comparable risk level...

Also you may be quite shockingly surprised, what you can do with $5 at the lottery. An expert, or great, lottery winner with a $5 lottery ticket...will without a doubt surpass a trader with a starting $100,000 account. (Recursively defining "expert, or great" as $5 lottery ticket player that...

Yeah, only I'm not there yet. And $100,000 buys you 10 years of $1000. A lot of time to think about what to do with those $1000 you got left.

Might have stated here previously, I've got $500 / month to burn out of the savings I draw from my salary. I can draw more but like in trading, I don't like margin calls :p With respect to finance I think of myself as some Swiss Army knife. I know programming (C++, Java, Perl) enough so I can...

Well, if it's not Kim, it's Him, I suppose :)

Let's say I'm convinced that 90% (perhaps more) of the successful traders are just random survivors. Not skill but luck. If you're very risk-adverse, you would be profitable in theory but in practice you get no opportunities. If you "step into the warzone" too much, you will lose. So there's a...

Thanks then and good luck to you too!

What you're describing sounds a lot like indentured servitude. Anyways, my new employer isn't doing finance, besides not having an absurd claim over stuff I do at home (provided of course I'm not being unethical and compete with him, which is not the case anyways).

Perhaps you should re-read my post. 1) I never said I didn't learn by myself. To the point where now I'm slightly profitable and hope to get better. 2) You missed the part about giving up intellectual property. So they DON'T teach me anything, DON'T support me to do my own learning DURING WORK...

What's your experience in the industry working with / for a company managing more than $10M in capital? More precisely I'm interested in something, given my =~ 10 years job for a hedge fund that managed some $1B at a time (now it's down to half and it's software business isn't doing great...